Amanda Edmiston writer and storyteller

Well its nearly upon us….Atropa Nights is at the Tron theatre Victorian Bar http://www.tron.co.uk/event/atropa-nights/ this Thursday and Friday the 17th and 18th of October 2013…at half eight….tickets are a mere £7 through the box office, for that you get 4 stories told by me and four beautiful pieces of piano music played live by the…

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Mending and Mermaids Amanda Edmiston Botanica fabula: Posted on 26 November 2015 21:04 The River Clyde…doesn’t immediately conjure up images of mermaids. But, according to fragments of lore, it was once home to merfolk, are at least there’s a scale or two of evidence of at least one. But it seems to be very hard…

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St Andrews Day Amanda Edmiston Botanica Fabula: Posted on 30 November 2015 20:50 It started with me imagining it was stir up Sunday…it wasn’t, I was a week late, not the last Sunday of November but the last Sunday before advent…I was a week late…I’d also not soaked the fruit long enough. I dug out…

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weekly blog about what inspires me to storytell and environmental play Source: Revisting the Elder Grove

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‘A Sylvan Yule’ A magical blend of live music, original and traditional tales, folklore and festive sparkle Amanda Edmiston Botanica Fabula: Posted on 17 December 2015 15:53 Just before I explore the tree stories, land legends and folklore that inspired it… I’m going to shamelessly plug next weeks lovely new session! Join us at 4pm…

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This is the view if you stand in my garden and look in one direction A messy upcycled child planted collection of favorite herbs, old slates telling stories behind the plants created by my daughter, scraps of folklore and ancient myths chalked onto stones amidst native Scottish plants. Face the other direction and the view looks…

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Rosemary’s been coming up a lot for me lately, I’ve been researching it along with some other plants for a piece I’ve been writing which combines herbal folklore, traces of lost Scottish legends, and a bit of history of medicine and health care in the highlands, which may be going out to New- York for…

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LAVINIA’S LAVENDER AND THE DEESIDE LAVENDER PROJECT LAVINIA’S LAVENDER is a story I developed for another project in 2013 ‘the lavender project’ created by the lovely Helen Smith http://www.helensmith.co.uk/content/lavender-project at the vibrant and stunning Woodend barn arts centre http://www.woodendbarn.com/ in Banchory Aberdeenshire, the former home of Scotland’s lavender industry. Unbeknownst to many, Deeside once had…

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Snow Girls and Nature adorns…icy embellishments We had a day or two of embracing the freeze, the older child got a beautiful book of Russian folktales for her Christmas from her beautiful storytelling Granny http://www.jeanstoryteller.co.uk/contact.html …and we revisited one of our snow story favourites: Snow Girl…there are several versions out there…inevitably in many, dare I…

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Valentines Day: Heather legends, Storytelling talks and sessions with adults…a great evening with Amicale I’ve been starting to concentrate on my plant stories again, officially I’m still on maternity leave following the birth of my second lovely bundle of gorgeousness last summer. Spending my days exploring new places with the new baba…being intrigued by trysting…